Controls Engineer, Energy Management

The role

This person will own the control and data contract between the facility energy controller and third-party power plant controllers. They will define sequences of operation, specify point maps and interlocks, and translate between electrical and software constraints.

What you will do

• Own the control and data contract between the facility energy controller and third-party power plant controllers.
• Define objects, fields, units, update rates and staleness behavior for data contracts.
• Define sequences of operation for normal operation, generation shortfall, source transitions, blackstart and emergency shed.
• Specify point maps, interlocks and constraint classes for vendors.
• Hold vendors to specifications through factory and site acceptance.
• Translate between electrical and software constraints.
• Prove the interface in simulation before energization.
• Carry simulation work into automated commissioning.

Required qualifications

• Worked in protocols that move data between machines and systems (MQTT, OPC UA, REST APIs).
• Write and read code in at least one language to prototype integrations, test point maps, and review software.
• Read a one-line and a panel schedule to determine protection, breakers and source behavior under a fault.
• Designed a data contract between two systems including objects, fields, units, update rates and staleness behavior.
• Written the control narrative for a system where two controllers had to agree.
• Fluent in both the controls world and the software world.
• Ability to push back on vendor scope or company assumptions using numbers.

Nice to have

• Microgrid and behind-the-meter control (grid-forming BESS, PV plant controllers, turbine and genset dispatch).
• Utility and industrial protocols (DNP3, IEC 61850 GOOSE, IEC 60870-5-104, Modbus TCP).
• Schema-driven contracts (OpenAPI, JSON Schema).
• Automated Level 4 and Level 5 commissioning.
• Python or Go

About the company

Fluidstack acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them. They are focused on delivering gigawatt-scale compute infrastructure for AI.